Updated May 2010
The Pediatric Neurosugery Unit
Department of Neurosurgery
Hadassah University Medical Center
Jerusalem, Israel
Tel:+972 50 5172174
Fax:+972 2 643 1740
E-mail: Benifla@hadassah.org.il
Personal Details
Date and Place of Birth: August 7, 1967 – Jerusalem, Israel.
Family Status: Married since 1991 to Ariana, a special education teacher. Father of four children (borned 1992, 1994,1999,2001).
Regular military service: 1985 – 1988 as a paratrooper
Reserve military service- Physician of a paratroopers’ regimen. Military rank- Captain
Education
7/93: B.Sc., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Medical Sciences
6/96: M.D., Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences
6/02: MHA., Ben Gurion University of the Negev, School of business and Management
Employment Experience
11/88 - 2/97: Israeli Telecommunication Company (“Bezeq”) as a technician in a full time job. Best employee of the transmission department in 1995. Head of section of television and radio F.M. transmissions in southern Israel area (parallel to fifth and sixth years of medical school).
2/97 - 2/98: Internship “Soroka Medical Center” Beer-Sheva, Israel
2/98 – 1/04: Residency, Department of Neurosurgery, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel
1/01 - 1/04: Chief resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel
2/04 - 6/04: Attending, Department of Neurosurgery, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
7/04 - 6/05: Clinical fellowship, Pediatric Neurosurgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
7/05 - 6/06: Clinical-Research fellowship, Epilepsy Surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
8/06 - 2/10: Pediatric and Epilepsy Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
3/10- Present: Head of the Paediatric Neurosugery Unit, Department of Neurosurgery, Hadassah University Medical Center, jerusalem, Israel
Professional Activities
(a) Position in academic administration
1997 – 2005: Instructor,. Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
2005-Present: Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
(b) Reviewer for Journals
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
(c) Membership of Medical Societies
Israeli Neurosurgical Association
Israeli League against Epilepsy
European Association of Neurosurgery- Member of the Young Neurosurgeons Committee
Ben-Gurion University Faculty of Health Sciences Council
Teaching Activities
(a) Courses taught
1998-2004: Coordinator and Teacher - Neurosurgery Department, Faculty of Health Sciences (6th year medical students)
1998-present: Teacher – Course in Neuroanatomy, 4th year medical students, Ben- Gurion unversity.
1998-present: Teacher- Course in Neuroscience, Rekannati Nursing School, Ben-Gurion University
2002-present: Coordinator and Teacher, Course in Neuroanatomy Columbia program for foreign medical students.
1999-2002: Coordinator and Teacher –Teaching program for internships of the Surgical Division.
1999-2001: Member of the internship committee of Soroka Medical Center.
1999-2004: Instructor of “Emotional Processing” for emotional awareness (4th and 5th year medical students)
(b) Medical Students Guided for Basic Science Project
- Uri Yoel MD
- Erez Nosek MD
- Shlomi Yelinek BSc
(c) Cathedras
April 2009 – present: Head of “Clinical Research In Surgery” Cathedra, the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion Universit of The Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Awards
2001 - The Students Excellency award for teaching, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
2003 - The Students Excellency award for teaching, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
2004 - The Students Excellency award for teaching, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
2007- The Students Excellency award for teaching, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Selected Publications since 2001
Benifla, M., H. Otsubo, A. Ochi, S. K. Weiss, E. J. Donner, M. Shroff, S. Chuang, C. Hawkins, J. M. Drake, I. Elliott, M. L. Smith, O. C. Snead, 3rd and J. T. Rutka (2006). "Temporal lobe surgery for intractable epilepsy in children: an analysis of outcomes in 126 children." Neurosurgery 59(6): 1203-1213; discussion 1213-1204.
Benifla, M., J. T. Rutka, W. Logan and E. J. Donner (2006). "Vagal nerve stimulation for refractory epilepsy in children: indications and experience at The Hospital for Sick Children." Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 22(8): 1018-1026.
Ivashkova, Y., A. Svetnitsky, O. Mayzler, D. Pruneau, M. Benifla, Y. Fuxman, A. Cohen, A. A. Artru and Y. Shapira (2006). "Bradykinin B2 receptor antagonism with LF 18-1505T reduces brain edema and improves neurological outcome after closed head trauma in rats." The Journal of trauma 61(4): 879-885.
Benifla, M., R. Barrelly, I. Shelef, J. El-On, A. Cohen and E. Cagnano (2007). "Huge hemispheric intraparenchymal cyst caused by Taenia multiceps in a child. Case report." Journal of neurosurgery 107(6 Suppl): 511-514.
Benifla, M., I. Melamed, R. Barrelly, A. Aloushin and I. Shelef (2008). "Unilateral partial hemilaminectomy for disc removal in a 1-year-old child." Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2(2): 133-135.
Benifla, M., J. T. Rutka, H. Otsubo, M. Lamberti-Pasculli, I. Elliott, E. Sell, R. RamachandranNair, A. Ochi, S. K. Weiss, O. C. Snead, 3rd and E. J. Donner (2008). "Long-term seizure and social outcomes following temporal lobe surgery for intractable epilepsy during childhood." Epilepsy research 82(2-3): 133-138.
Ramachandrannair, R., A. Ochi, K. Imai, M. Benifla, T. Akiyama, S. Holowka, J. T. Rutka, O. C. Snead, 3rd and H. Otsubo (2008). "Epileptic spasms in older pediatric patients: MEG and ictal high-frequency oscillations suggest focal-onset seizures in a subset of epileptic spasms." Epilepsy research 78(2-3): 216-224.
Benifla, M., F. Sala, Jr., J. Jane, H. Otsubo, A. Ochi, J. Drake, S. Weiss, E. Donner, A. Fujimoto, S. Holowka, E. Widjaja, O. C. Snead, 3rd, M. L. Smith, M. S. Tamber and J. T. Rutka (2009). "Neurosurgical management of intractable rolandic epilepsy in children: role of resection in eloquent cortex. Clinical article." Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 4(3): 199-216.
Gaetz, W., D. Cheyne, J. T. Rutka, J. Drake, M. Benifla, S. Strantzas, E. Widjaja, S. Holowka, Z. Tovar-Spinoza, H. Otsubo and E. W. Pang (2009). "Presurgical localization of primary motor cortex in pediatric patients with brain lesions by the use of spatially filtered magnetoencephalography." Neurosurgery 64(3 Suppl): 177-185; discussion 186.
Shlosberg, D., M. Benifla, D. Kaufer and A. Friedman (2010). "Blood-brain barrier breakdown as a therapeutic target in traumatic brain injury." Nature reviews. Neurology 6(7): 393-403.
Tomkins, O., A. Feintuch, M. Benifla, A. Cohen, A. Friedman and I. Shelef (2011). "Blood-brain barrier breakdown following traumatic brain injury: a possible role in posttraumatic epilepsy." Cardiovascular psychiatry and neurology 2011: 765923.
Selected Presentations in Meetings
1.Benifla M, Weizman Z, levy Y, Press Y, Fraser D, Treating diarrhea: appropriateness of hospitalization an Israeli pediatric department. The XXV Annual Conference of the Israel Epidemiology Association. 1.6.97 Ramat-gan Israel.
2. Shelef, I, Benifla, M, Melamaed I, and Cohen A Post contrast helical CT for trauma near cerebral dural sinuses in children. European Society of Pediatric Radiology. 36 th Annual Congress. Jerusalem Abstracts, 388, 1999.
3. Cohen A., Benifla M., Melamed I., Hertzanu Y., Reichenthal E., Shelef I. Trauma near cerebral dural sinuses in children: the role of contrast HELICAL CT.
Millennium Congress of World Pediatric Neurosurgeons Association, Caribbean Islands, November, 1999.
4. Shelef I, M. Benifla, P. Crystal, I. Melamed, A. Cohen. Post contrast helical CT for trauma near verebral dural sinuses in children. . European Society of pediatric Radiology, 36th Annual Congress, Jerusalem, Israel 23-29 May 1999. Published in Pediatr Radiol (1999) 29 388
5. Shelef, A Cohen, M. Benifla, I melamed, H. Golan. Free craniotomy vs Osteoblastic craniotomy flap: Assesment of flap Viability Using 99m TC-MDPSect. The 87th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 25-30, 2001.I.
6. I. Shelef, M. Benifla, A. Cohen. Non Thrombotic Cerebral Dural Sinus Occlusion Spiral Ct-Diagnosis. The annual meeting of the Israel Radilogical Association. 24-16 November 2001, Eilat, Israel.
7. Mony Benifla, H Otsubo , C Snead, S Weiss , S Khoshyomn, JT Rutka Temporal lobectomy for epilepsy in children- The Hospital for Sick Children Experience. IThe annual meeting of the International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN), September 2005.
8. Mony Benifla, H Otsubo , C Snead, S Weiss , S Khoshyomn, JT Rutka Temporal lobectomy for epilepsy in children- long term follow up. The annual Pediatric Section meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). November 2005.
9. Tomkins O., Shelef I., Benifla M., Friedman A. Computer-assisted diagnosis of blood-brain barrier disruption.. Israel Society of Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Reviews in the Neurosciences, 16(supplement 1) S64, 2005
10. Mony Benifla, Suzzane Laughlin, Ute Bartels, Maria Lamberti-Pasculli, James T. Rutka, and Peter B. Dirks Spontaneous Hemorrhage in Pediatric Brain Tumors.. The annual Pediatric Section meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). November 2006.
11. Gaetz W, Pang EW, Rutka J, Benifla M, Strantzas S, Sharma R, Chu B, Holowka S, Otsubo H, Cheyne DO. Pre-operative mapping of primary motor cortex in children using spatially filtered magnetoencephalography. Presented at BioMag 2006, Vancouver Canada, Aug 20-26th.
12. William Gaetz, Elizabeth Pang, James Rutka, Mony Benifla, Roy Sharma, Stephanie Holowka, Hiroshi Otsubo, Douglas Cheyne, Preoperative localization of primary motor cortex in children using spatially filtered magnetoencephalography. 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping June 2007
13. M Benifla, JT Rutka , E Sell, R RamachandranNair, H Otsubo, A Ochi, OC Snead III, S Weiss and EJ Donner.Long term outcome following temporal lobe surgery for epilepsy in childhood American Epilepsy Society Meeting. December 2006.
14. Mony Benifla, Suzzane Laughlin, Ute Bartels, Maria Lamberti-Pasculli, James T. Rutka, and Peter B. Dirks Intracranial Tumoral Hemorrhage in Children.. Israel Neurosurgery Society, the Annual meeting, March 2007.
15. . M Benifla, JT Rutka, W Logan, EJ Donner. Israel Neurosurgery Society, the Annual meeting Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Refractory Epilepsy in Children, March 2007.
16. Mony Benifla, Oren Tomkins, Ilan Shelef, Alon Friedman. International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN). Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in Pediatric Post-Traumatic Epilepsy. Cape Town September 2008
17. Mony Benifla, Marco Poterman, Michael Nash, Ilan Shelef, Avi Cohen. International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN)Combined Intracranial and Extracranial Approach to Post Traumatic Skull Base Leptomeningeal Cyst in Children. Cape Town September 2008
18. Mony Benifla, Akiva Korn, Ilan Shelef, Sharon Naparstek, and Alon Friedman. Israel Neurosurgery Society, the Annual meeting. Extraoperative Mapping With Grid Electrodes for Motor, Sensory and Speech Localization in Epilepsy Surgery. The Dead Sea March 2009
Invited Lectures
1. Vagal Nerve Stimulation: The Experience at the Hospital for Sick Children. 2006 William S. Keith Professorship in Neurosurgery February 13-14, Toronto Western Hospital
2. Temporal Lobe Surgery for intractable epilepsy in Children. Beer-Sheva Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, 1st Annual meeting. March 2007.
3. Traumatic Dural Venous Occlusion. Neuroradilogy Annual Seminar. Soroka Medical Center, May 2007
4. Temporal Lobe Surgery for Epilepsy in Children. World Fedeation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) Meeting. Boston, MA, USA. August 2009.
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